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| LECTURE III.—Physiological and Pathological Tissues. | 77 |
| The higher animal tissues: muscles, nerves,vessels, blood.—Muscles. Striped and smooth. Atrophy of. The contractile substance and contractility in general. Cutis anserina and arrectores pilorum. Vessels. Capillaries. Contractile vessels. Nerves.— Pathological tissues (Neoplasms), and their classification. Import of vascularity. Doctrine of specific elements. Physiological types (reproduction). Heterology (heterotopy, heterochrony, heterometry), and malignity. Hypertrophy and hyperplasy. Degeneration. Criteria for prognosis.—Law of continuity. Histological substitution and equivalents. Physiological and pathological substitution. | |
| LECTURE IV.—Nutrition and its Channels. | 101 |
| Action of the vessels. Relations between vessels and tissues. Liver. Brain. Muscular coat of the stomach. Cartilage. Bone.—Dependence of tissues upon vessels. Metastases. Vascular territories [Gefassterritorien] (vascular unities). Conveyance of nutriment in the juice-conveying canals (Saftkanäle) of the tissues. Bone. Teeth. Fibro-cartilage. Cornea. Semilunar cartilages. | |
| LECTURE V.—Nutrition, and Conveyance of the Nutritive Juices. | 119 |
| Tendons. Cornea. Umbilical cord.—Elastic tissue. Corium.—Loose connective tissue. Tunica dartos.—Importance of cells in the special distribution of the nutritive juices. | |
| LECTURE VI.—Nutrition and Circulation. | 140 |
| Arteries. Capillaries. Continuity of their membrane. Its porosity. Haemorrhage by transudation (per diapedesin). Veins. Vessels during pregnancy.—Properties of the walls of vessels: 1. Contractility. Rhythmical movement. Active or irritative hyperaemia. Ischaemia. Counter irritants. 2. Elasticity and its importance as regards the rapidity and uniformity of the current of blood. Dilatation of the vessels. 3. Permeability. Diffusion. Specific affinities. Relations between the supply of blood and nutrition. Glandular secretion (liver). Specific action of the elements of the tissues.—Dyscrasia. Its transitory character and local origin. Dyscrasia of drunkards. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis. | |
| LECTURE VII.—The Blood. | 166 |
| Fibrine. Its fibrillae. Compared with mucus, and connective tissue. Homogeneous condition.—Red blood-corpuseles. Their nucleus and contents. Changes of form. Blood-crystals (Haematoidine, Haemine, Hasmatocrystalline).—Colourless blood-corpuscles. Numerical proportion. Structure. Compared with pus-corruscles. Their viscosity and agglutination. Specific gravity. Crusta granulosa. Diagnosis between pus- and colourless blood corpuscles. |
